Nice one.  I had this computer.  Having the cassette player built into it was a good idea.

My first home computer and still the best 8bit in my opinion.

Thank you for this. I’d been trying to work out what computer it was I had when I was around 10 years old in 1997ish. I knew it was an old computer for the time but when I searched for 80s computers, I tended to get the American ones. Finally worked out it was the CPC 464 and this video was a wonderful shot of nostalgia. It’s what got me into computers and gaming as a young girl, something that’s stayed part of my life ever since.

The CPC464 was my first PC. I learned to code with that (excellent) manual. Later I upgraded to a 6128 and I'm still having fun with that today. As with the C64 and ZX Spectrum, the homebrew scene for the CPC is still very active. Not only are there plenty of great new games and demos coming out every year that really show what the hardware can do when pushed to its limits, but people have also given it a multitasking graphical OS (SymbOS), and there are hardware expansions available to add extra memory, hard drive, wifi, cartridge support, dual sound chips and other fun stuff. And then of course there is the CPC Plus range...

In the 1980s I was a teenager studying computer science at school in Italy. I had one. It was less capable for games, but more useful for learning to program, first with Basic, then with a limited but functional Pascal compiler, and finally with the z80 assembler.

Brilliant video Tezza. I still have a fully functional CPC 464....it now has pride of place in my bedroom. Yes, my Sega Mega Drive, Super Nintendo, Sega Saturn, PS2 and PS4 are in the living room hoojed up to the large tv, but the Amstrad came with it's own colour monitor! Only thing I don't have whereas you do is the cool manual....I learned BASIC from that and have been coding ever since. Thank you for sharing the light on my beloved CPC :D

Thank you for the video.
I was a ZX Spectrum man myself. Nice trip down the memory lane.

Beautiful mix of audio and processing machines inside this device 🕹

I loved mine and subscribed to the official magazine. Adding a disk drive and printer turned it into a functional, if limited, word processor. I modded a small pair of speakers to work with the unit which gave me stereo sound.

Very interesting!  I've never used one, but I remember a friend from Denmark told me that this was his first introduction to computers in his early years.

Nice cameo appears of the VTech Talking Lesson One at @1:45.

Thanks for your videos!!

My first computer was the ZD Spectrum 48k when I was about 6, I had no idea what it was when I got it for Xmas and I was quickly blown away and a couple of years later I got an Amstrad cpc 464. I think I played with that thing for the next 10 years because it is emotional just to see a video about it. I can tell you the tape deck eventually got a bit dodgy and i found a way to maniplate the play button with a precise pressure to make the games load. I remember that big thick manual so well and it's funny to me that the people who produced these early games machines thought people would want to know how to maximize what they could do with them .... the modern games consoles come with instructiuons on how to plug them in because that's all we wanted to know haha.

My first real PC at age 16.  Leaned BASIC on it.  Built in tape deck was great - until the heads eventually clogged up with dust.  Played "Dizzy" on it for fun.  CPC128 had a drive with a CPM OS

The Amstrad cpc 464 was my first micro computer back in 1984. I have still got a working unit and I gets regular use I absolutely love the machine.
Great video👍🏻😎😂.

Nice presentation.

My third computer, after 2 ZX-81s. Big step up.

Нравится,что блок цифровых кнопок сделан отдельно,это же так просто и удобно,почему так все не делали?

I got mine for my 14th Birthday (November) 85 the colour monitor l loved playing Chuckie egg also myself,mum,dad we were quite competitive playing the fruit machine , yeah I was a spoiled kid

i just bought this PC my dads picking it up today so i really hope it works and thanks for the information i also got a CRT i could not see a model number on it but i got it all for $60 aud